I think they look very different. My personal opinion is just that, my opinion.

But……………..it all depends on how copyright law is written in the country where the filing took place.  Are there enough points of same verses difference.  Also, were the “Offending” models being advertised as replacement models to the Nighthaunts”?

Could be GW is just relying on the muscle of it’s legal dept to scare off direct competition.  But the they might have enough grounds according to the law.

Sad to see that the twat is still high in GW.  I had hoped they had learned a lesson with the Charterhouse fiasvo, but sadly they can’t seem to help themselves.

Don’t mind them defending their IP, but it should be *their* IP and not just generic fantasy tropes.

Templar007 – “I think they look very different. My personal opinion is just that, my opinion.” As I said to them, their look like a Michelangelo to GW’s pre school scribbles. The Wraith King models are spectacular.

“Also, were the “Offending” models being advertised as replacement models to the Nighthaunts”?”

Not in the least.  They were not even being advertised as compliments to the Nighthaunt range. In fact, the Nighthaunts were not mentioned at all in the campaign. “Warhammer” was the closest they got.

@osbad this is how this works in the real world.
Someone logs a complaint and Kickstarter has to take down the project until it is cleared and/or an agreement of sorts is reached.

As outsiders we don’t know how, if or when GW contacted the creators of the project and kickstarter itself.
We don’t know what timeframe was exceeded before Kickstarter had to act (they can’t afford not to act because there’s plenty of money riding on the fact that their platform survives).

It’s real easy to frame a big evil corp as the bad guy, because they are easy to hate.

They might not have gotten onto GW’s radar if they hadn’t mentioned any of their games on their official page, but they did …

A short delay and back up in a few days.
Better now than after the campaign as the latter would have cost quite a bit more than a few resculpts of potentially offending minis.

Interestimg that GW targeted them but not the companies which sell stl files for Warmaster scale minis which are basically donwsized WHF sculpts. But maybe they don’t advertise as Warhammer/Warmaster or theym ight just different enough. Or maybe because Warmaster is dead.

Now that I’ve seen it … there still are more than a few not-nighthaunts in those pictures.
Even down to the grates on their base.

Yes, you can’t ‘copyright’ ghosts with swords.
However when the style of the ‘Risen Guard’ and ‘Midnight guard’  is nearly identical to the GW equivalents …
The ‘moron in a hurry’ (or whatever it is called) certainly wouldn’t know which one was ‘official’.

They definitely should consider themselves lucky because I kind of doubt they’d survive a day in court if GW really really wanted to neutralize them.

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The black squires and their more unique looking sculpts in this kickstarter are looking good.
It’s a shame a 3D printer is needed to use them.